Evelyn Pringle: Get Mercury Out Of Vaccines – NOW!

Get Mercury Out Of Vaccines – NOW!

Mercury-based, thimerosal, used as a
preservative in childhood vaccines until recently, is now
being blamed for a host of neurological problems, including
autism, ADD, ADHD, and other learning disabilities.

The
number of children with these problems can vary greatly
depending on who you listen to, some experts say there are
about eight hundred-thousand learning disabled children in
the US, while others put the number as high as eight
million, according to Dr Jay Gordon.

Dr Gordon is a
California pediatrician who has worked as a consultant for
CBS on children's programming. He was ABC’s medical
correspondent for the "Home Show,” for 5 years and has
appeared on "Good Morning America" to discuss vaccines. On
his website, appropriately called, Dr Jay Gordon, he
addresses many of issues related to vaccine policies in the
US.

Granted, there are plenty of research studies to
document the fact that some vaccines are necessary to
protect against serious diseases. However, there is very
little data to support the methods that are used to
vaccinate children in the US.

In a March 7, 2005 article
in the LA Times, Dr Gordon broke ranks and disputed claims
that all vaccines are safe. Parents choose Gordon as their
pediatrician because of his stance on vaccinations. They
know he will lend a sympathetic ear to their concerns about
the possible adverse side effects of childhood vaccinations,
according to Times.

On his website, Gordon explains how he
addresses the issue of early vaccination. "In my office,
with families I know well, I believe that the main idea I
convey is that we should vaccinate later and slower. One
shot at a visit starting later in the first year and perhaps
in the second year of life. I have many families in my
practice who have chosen to give their children no
vaccines," he adds.

"In my opinion, we vaccinate in an
unscientific and potentially dangerous way," he says.

Gordon also doesn’t "like the financial ties that vaccine
researchers have to the manufacturers because some of these
same experts help make the official decisions about which
shots will be approved and/or required," he says.

Over the
past 15 to 20 years, the number of cases of autism in
children has gone from 1 in 10,000 to one in 150 today.
Learning disabilities were first noted in 1963, but the
problem was rare and very few children were identified with
the disorder. Today, one child in 6 is diagnosed with
Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) or Attention Deficit
Disorder with Hyperactivity (ADHD).

According to Dr
Gordon’s website, ADD or ADHD affects millions of children.
Currently accepted statistics say that as many as 10% of the
school-aged population have ADHD, and about another 20% have
symptoms suggestive of ADHD. These children will continue to
manifest these symptoms and problems in adulthood, according
to the site.

The number of recommended vaccines in the
Federal immunization schedule has nearly tripled since 1988.
The agency now recommends vaccines for 12 diseases. Because
some shots must be given more than once, a child may as many
as 23 shots by age 2 and might receive as many as 6 shots
during a single visit to a doctor.

The biggest source of
parental concern about vaccines is the claim that vaccines
are linked to a rise in autism rates. For example, in
California, between 1987 and 2002, there has been a more
than six-fold increase in autism cases, according to a 2003
report by the California Department of Development Services.

Although government "experts" continue to maintain there
is no link between autism and vaccines, they offer no
alternative theory for the skyrocketing number of cases.

Because the onset of autism usually begins during the
period when children are receiving many vaccines, most
parents are convinced that vaccines trigger the disorder.
Thousands of parents have filed lawsuits in the Court of
Federal Claims alleging that thimerosal used in vaccines
until 2002, is the cause of autism and a host of other
neurological disorders.

Ann Dachel - A Mother's
Perspective

If all these problems are not caused by
vaccines, “I wish the medical community would explain where
all the damaged children are coming from,” Ann Dachel
says.

Anne is from Chippewa Falls, WI. She is a school
teacher, a member of the National Autism Association, and
the mother of a boy with autism and a daughter who developed
epilepsy after receiving a Hepatitis B vaccine.

She
firmly believes the Hepatitis B vaccine her daughter Kate
received is the direct cause of three years of seizures that
followed the vaccine. “No one seems to want to look into the
correlation of the use of a known neurotoxins in vaccines
and the epidemic in neurological disorders among children,”
Ann says.

“Our Federal health agencies,” she notes, “took
years to even recognize an increase in the autism rate.”
Once they were forced to acknowledge the rise in autism, Ann
says, their feeble explanations for the epidemic range from
"better diagnosing and an expanded spectrum of autism
disorders" to a "genetic cause."

She disputes these
claims. “Doctors aren't suddenly smarter and believe me, no
one can "miss" an autistic child,” Ann says, “genes don’t
cause epidemics,” she adds.

“Do they need children
dropping over dead in the Doctor’s office or setting off
metal detectors at airports before they’ll blame the deadly
neurotoxin for the neurological damage done to our
children?” Ann asks.

In her teaching capacity, Ann works
with a group of ADD and ADHD kids and she says, “almost all
of them have health problems like asthma, allergies, chronic
ear infection, etc.”

“I was at a talk the other night by
a speech therapist and nutritionist who works with children
in hospitals and schools,” Ann reports, “she brought up the
fact that today's children are the sickest in history,”

Are So Many Vaccines Really
Necessary?

Currently, between birth and 6 months,
newborns get a total of 13 doses of vaccines. Between 12
and 24 months, they get another 10 vaccines.

When asked
which vaccines should be given the first year, Gordon
advised, "I prefer to give no vaccines or just the DPT
during the first year," the Times reports. “DPT is relevant
because you can get whooping cough-diphtheria," it
adds.

Many of these vaccines are unnecessary because some
diseases are virtually nearly non-existent in the US today.
There have been no new polio cases in the last decade, and
it's highly unlikely that a baby would contract Hepatitis B.
There are only a few dozen cases of tetanus each year,
according to Gordon.

“The diseases against which we
vaccinate used to be much more common,” he explains, “but we
are now down to an average of one case of diphtheria (the
"D" of the DPT) per year ... a few thousand cases of
Pertussis ("P") and 30 or so cases of Tetanus each
year.”

The best example of unnecessary vaccines used
solely to boost profits for the drug companies, is the
Hepatitis B vaccine. Hepatitis B is a disease transmitted
through high-risk adult behavior involving intravenous drug
use and unprotected sex.

When following the Federal
Immunization Schedule, infants receive a shot of Hep B
within hours of birth and 6 weeks later, they get shots of
Hep B shot, Hemophilus Influenza B (HIB), Polio, and
Prevnar, the latest vaccine to be added to the
schedule.

While Gordon admits the Hep B vaccine works very
well, he says it may have autoimmune complications and
should only be given after a careful evaluation of the risks
and benefits to the child.

In a report titled, The Saga
Of Pediatric Hepatitis B Vaccination, F Edward Yazbal, MD
claims government health authorities have been lying to the
pubic about the need for the Hep B vaccine, and mandated a
vaccine for babies when there was no reason to do so. He
says the CDC has contradicted its own previous
pronouncements about the numbers of Hepatitis B cases in
America to justify adding this vaccine to the schedule.

The Prevnar vaccine was produced to protect higher-risk
people from a specific group of dangerous bacteria,” Gordon
explains, “It was never intended to be, and is not very
effect as, an "ear infection" shot,” he adds, “The diseases
that it prevents are extremely rare.”

Dr Gordon
acknowledges that Meningitis is a dangerous, potentially
fatal infection and the vaccine given to combat Meningitis
is affective and has eliminated over 95% of this illness.
However, “I personally have not seen a case if HIB
meningitis in at least 7 or 8 years, maybe more,” he says,
but “some scientists and others now think that the vaccine
may cause "autoimmune" problems -- the immune system
mistakenly attacks one's own body -- such as diabetes,” he
warns.

"The MMR vaccine merits an entire page of its own,”
Gordon says, “But there is enough evidence that these
"live-virus" vaccines may not be as safe as we thought to
convince me that we need much more study before we can stop
looking,” he adds.

“Chickenpox is a relatively benign
disease in childhood,” Gordon maintains. He says this
vaccine was invented in the 1970s to protect children on
chemotherapy or high dose steroids for asthma and other
illnesses. He explains that “normal kids get immunity from
the illness which might actually have been better than that
acquired from the shot.” Gordon recommends trying to get
children natural chickenpox for 4 or 5 years and then get
the shot later if that is not successful.

Thimerosal
Is Still In Vaccines

Drug companies began claiming
they were reducing the amount of thimerosal in vaccines back
in 1999. Some drug makers said there was only a trace
amount of mercury in their products and others claimed they
are producing mercury-free vaccines.

Wanting to determine
whether mercury was truly absent from vaccines today, the
group, Health Advocacy in the Public Interest (HAPI),
recently sent 4 vaccines off to be tested. The test results
showed that all four vials contained mercury, despite claims
by two drug makers that their products were totally mercury
free.

HAPI also discovered that thimerosal is still being
used in the manufacturing process of most vaccines.
However, drug makers claim they filter the thimerosal out of
the final product. But Boyd Haley, who is the Chemistry
Department Chair at the University of Kentucky, told HAPI,
that claim is false because mercury binds to the antigenic
protein in the vaccine and cannot be completely filtered out
100%.

It is more than apparent that at this point in time,
no one can guarantee parents that all mercury has been
removed from childhood vaccines. In fact, drug companies
admit that flu vaccines still contain an unsafe amount of
thimerosal and the government still recommends flu vaccines
for pregnant women and some children.

Ann Dachel wants to
know, “How long the CDC and FDA will make claims that deadly
mercury is perfectly safe when injected into tiny babies?
How many children will have to be damaged before we stop
this? How long will they just deny the obvious?”

Until
they can be assured with absolute 100% certainty, that
thimerosal has been eliminated from all vaccines, no parent
should be forced to inject their children with potentially
poisonous vaccines.

*************

Evelyn Pringle is a columnist for Independent
Media TV and an investigative journalist focused on exposing
corruption in government.

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